The Hamster Alliance

The Hamster Alliance is a one man music project. The goal of "THA" is to produce awesome and diverse music without constraints. All music by THA is freely available on the internet to listen to. If you would like to use THA music in a project, please send me an email

The idea here was to make a sort of energetic chill out piece. Mix a Glitch Hop style beat with a lot of atmospheric pads and acoustic guitar. Add in some big orchestral drums and a whole mess of reverb and we've got ourselves a track!

There's something really alluring about Jazz, Blues and Folk music. It's just got a sort of magic to it that I love, and like with all music, I especially like when it comes with a twist. I have a real fondness for the music of Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Howlin' Wolf and Tom Waits. This is basically me trying something out in that playground.

What we've got here is some quite gravelly vocals about a roaming criminal atop a bouncy instrumental. It's got a catchy chorus too.

Ready to GET HYPE? You better be. Hyped up for mean guitar riffs and Latin piano! Err, I mean, for big Jazz brass and a saxophone solo! Or uh, a vaguely exotic sounding clarinet and a shotgun sound effect! Actually, just get ready for all of it, as it's all here in Explosive Heat Death.

Taking inspiration from stuff like Progressive Rock and Jazz, there's a lot going on in this one.

You know what I like? The music of 1997. Big Beat. Some of my favorite albums were released that year. The Prodigy's Fat of the Land, The Crystal Method's Vegas, The Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole.

Well, this new track is inspired by all that sort of stuff. Big Beat mixed with Indian sounds and themes. I tried to find a good mix between acoustic instruments and synths, so that the track wouldn't be dominated by either one.

Anyway, I like Westerns. I like Spaghetti Westerns. I like the iconic imagery evocative of the lawless western frontier. The Western setting has always been one I've enjoyed in film and music. The sound of the west is magical. "Riders of Vengeance" is my latest foray into that sound space.

Previous excursions include "Lonestar" and "The Stranger", both available on the music page of this site.